{"id":23459,"date":"2016-08-13T18:17:49","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T22:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=23459"},"modified":"2016-08-13T20:00:13","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T00:00:13","slug":"poem-11-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/poem-11-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hide and seek<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I hide<\/p>\n<p>Behind a friend<br \/>\nWho was always by my side<br \/>\nShe protects me<br \/>\nNot because she cares<br \/>\nBut she don&#8217;t wanna loose her dominance over me..<br \/>\nShe was none other but was my own fear. .<br \/>\nShe gave a coverage..<br \/>\nShe pampered me like a child..<br \/>\nI started believing her<br \/>\nThe trust grew deeper day by day..<br \/>\nThen another one enters in my life..<br \/>\nI didn&#8217;t like her<br \/>\nAs she always tried to seek me,<br \/>\nTo show me that the one who is caring for me is not actually called care..<br \/>\nShe showed me the real face of fear<br \/>\nShe told me that you will not like me ever<br \/>\nMay b you would scare of me..<br \/>\nAs I m the one who will force you to take risks in your life<br \/>\nWho will push you to face reality..<br \/>\nI am courage..<br \/>\nFear didn&#8217;t like the company of me and courage<br \/>\nAs she&#8217;s now getting the intuition of loosing me<br \/>\nShe became friend with anger to make me under her.<\/p>\n<p>Now I was confused..<br \/>\nI was neither with fear nor with courage<br \/>\nI was alone thinking and defining my own presence in the world..<\/p>\n<p>Obviously fear and anger was attracting me more than courage..<br \/>\nAs I was feeling comfortable with them..<br \/>\nBut then I thought why not to try courage for once..<br \/>\nI take one step ahead with courage<br \/>\nThen I realized I am getting inner peace and positive strength<br \/>\nI felt stronger. . I felt happy.<br \/>\nSuddenly don&#8217;t know From where, patience was watching me patiently..<br \/>\nI felt calm by seeing her with me too..<br \/>\nI got patience in myself automatically..<\/p>\n<p>In the company of courage and patience..<br \/>\nI became the one i never imagined I could ever be. .<br \/>\nI forgot that I was just testing courage and patience over fear and anger..<br \/>\nI was different dhriti now..<br \/>\nFrom just dhriti (name which my parents gave to me on my birth), I made myself the real dhriti(which means courage and patience)<\/p>\n<p>It was out of the world which I experienced..<br \/>\nIt wouldn&#8217;t be justice to say that the fear and anger was never needed..<br \/>\nBecause of them, I got a chance to know courage and Patience better..<br \/>\nFear hid me.. courage sought me..<\/p>\n<p>Respect bad and accept good,<br \/>\nBad shows the importance of good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hide and seek &nbsp; I hide Behind a friend Who was always by my side She protects me Not because she cares But she don&#8217;t wanna loose her dominance over me.. She was none other but was my own fear. . She gave a coverage&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":895,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8,7,1136,441,5],"tags":[1199],"class_list":["post-23459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-introductions","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts","tag-poetryloverfromindia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/895"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23459"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24286,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23459\/revisions\/24286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}